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Basketball Quote by Bob Cousy

“Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.”

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I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the…

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My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

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Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

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People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed…

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We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

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Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind…

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We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.

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My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

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The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

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It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

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I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after…

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Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the…

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